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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Fantasy Football Draft Rankings & Tiers | Running Back Must-Have Targets, Busts to Avoid & Sleepers (Ep. 2029)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Join Joe Pisapia, Derek Brown, and Andrew Erickson as they break down the running back position for fantasy football in 2026 Joe, D-Bro, and Andrew go through the consensus rankings and tiers to highlight which players they will be targeting and avoiding in their upcoming drafts!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:37.5

Guaranteed Human. Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. It's me, Joey P. Joe Pee Zapia. And today we're going to continue our series. If you missed yesterday's show on the quarterback version, we'll go back and watch it on demand on the YouTube channel, subscribe to the YouTube channel. But today we're moving to the running backs and the early tiers and the early rankings that you could find on Fantasypros.com slash rankings. Again, easy to remember, so go check it out there. To help us parse through these tiers of RBEs, who you want to move up, who you want to move down, who better than my two best friends, Andrew Erickson, Mr. Big Pot Energy,

0:43.2

and of course, D-Bro, Derek Brown, the King of Bros, fresh from a beard consortium meeting, too,

0:45.5

with all of his good friends in the beard community.

0:47.5

So I hope that went well for you.

0:48.5

I hope you enjoyed that.

0:52.4

I hope you brought lots of fun creams and lotions and oils home.

0:53.1

I assume you did.

0:55.9

I imagine your bathroom is just slick with all the beard products, right? Is that what it is? I felt like this conversation was going to make a very

1:00.3

weird left turn there for a second. I think it has. But yes, we had a long conversation. There were

1:06.7

many, many PowerPoint presentations about fade and Italian beards and the construction of those

1:15.2

right now. Next year, we're hoping to get Andrew Erickson in the door, but he's got to prove

1:19.8

that he can grow a beard first before we allow him into the meeting. So we shall see. That sounds

1:24.6

like a shot at you, Andrew. I'm just saying. It's an accurate one.

1:28.0

It's not for me. This is from the consortium. I'm just speaking for the collective. Very precise. Spot on. That's some top tier accuracy, D, bro. Yeah. There you go. Well, that's what's all about over here. The accuracy of the rankings, we're going to get into all that stuff. And if you enjoy this kind of nonsense, well, you know what's for you, our new channel,

1:47.3

Tailgate NFL. So right now, go over, find it on YouTube, Tailgate NFL, search it in there, subscribe. We're giving away a Jamar Chase jersey over there, by the way, for subscribers who comments. I'll go watch some of the amazing videos. We've got a whole series of stuff coming out at you, too, over these next few weeks.

2:02.2

We've got a lot of fun stuff.

2:03.2

Just talking football.

2:03.9

It's not fantasy.

2:04.9

It's not betting.

2:14.5

It's just football. So it encompasses everything. And we just kind of have loose conversations and have a bunch of fun there, too. But we're going to have fun here today as well. So we're going to get to these running back rankings here.

2:17.3

And let's start at the very top with the tier one guys.

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